This act consolidates all past acts regarding the rebuilding of St John's after the fire of 1847, which destroyed a large portion of the town. Safety regulations, particularly regarding fire breaks, are clearly defined, as well as city regulations regarding sewage and street construction.
This act makes provisions to indemnify and protect property owners who may have their property destroyed or damaged in public riots or mob violence in the city of Quebec.
This act authorizes the city of Quebec to take measures which will help consolidate the city's debt, under the terms and conditions specified by the act.
This act clarifies a past act, which does not specify a date for its enactment, by effectively amending the past act to include a date by which the act will be enforced.
This is an extension of an 1851 act, which allows the municipal council for the county of Welland to purchase a plot of land known as the Great Cranberry Marsh.
This act grants water lots to the city of Toronto, further to grants made previously to the city, and approves a proposal made by the city council to build an esplanade along these lots. The act also permits rates and tolls to be charged for use of the esplanade once it is built, but specifies that nothing in the act can impede the rights already given to railroad companies or to the parliament buildings established in Toronto.